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         Ringing Pine Medallions of Red Pine Camp        

       
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       Thursday 7 June 2012  
     
   
       

A Fable

According to legend, the ‘Ringing Red Pines’ of Red Pine Camp
on Golden Lake in Ontario are very old, very special trees that over
their lifetimes have accumulated so much energy that they start emitting
a vibrating ring tone. It is believed that simply being in close
proximity to these trees or having pieces of their wood hanging about
your neck can produce beneficial effects on health and wellbeing.

Those who wear a small wooden Ringing Red Pine medallion as a pendant
evoke feelings of goodwill in themselves and others. They gain talent,
creativity, aptitude, positivity and luck. People who wear these
pendants notice an increase in both their mental acuity and physical
prowess. The medallions also help to overcome illnesses by accumulating
positive energy over time and then giving it back to you whenever you
most need it.

The pendant is made from branches of mature Red Pines. No damage is
ever done to these trees. When worn, they should touch the skin—the side
which touches your skin should never be painted or covered with a
sealant—it should remain in its natural state so that the oils and
smells of Ringing Red Pines may reach the skin and the nostrils. An
all-natural leather, cotton or hemp cord should run width-wise across
the top of the medallion and around the neck. You may create wonderful
folk art on the outer side of your medallion– children and adults can
tell their stories by wearing multiple medallions!

(This legend is inspired by a Russian one—the Ringing Cedars of Siberia.
These Medallions and their legend were first introduced to Red Pine
Camp in the summer of 2009 by Bruce and Rachel Firestone and their
family, longterm Week 6 campers. These medallions also play a role in
Prof Bruce’s new novel, Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE. Book 1 of his
new trilogy is available at www.brucemfirestone.com.)

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Barbara Lukas
June 2012

       
       
       
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         Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech        

       
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       Wednesday 6 June 2012  
     
   
       

By: Bruce M Firestone, Founder, Ottawa Senators
Date: June 6, 2012

Thank you for inviting me here tonight. I can’t tell you how excited I
am to be here with my family, friends, colleagues, Sens fans and
executives as well as Board of Directors from the Ottawa Sports Hall of
Fame.

I got word that four of the Founders of the modern day Senators would
be inducted this year via a phone call from friend, lawyer and overall
good guy, Mike Gerrior from the Perleys law firm. Now I can tell you
that when I get a call from a lawyer, it’s usually not good news but it
might actually be better than receiving a call from the Chair of the
Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame like Randy did—Mike Flanagan who also happens
to be a Superintendent on the Ottawa Police Force.

After getting over some nerves, I realized this was in fact a great
moment for me and my family and I couldn’t wait to share the news with
everyone.

I would like to recognize the work done by Perleys; they went above
and beyond what most law firms could possibly have done to close the
deal with the National Hockey League back in 1990 and 1991. Mike was
there along with Tom McDougall, David Hill and the late deLobe Panet who
subsequently became Justice Panet. deLobe was one of my heroes—if there
was a conflict between the law and ethics, he always came down on the
side of truth and fairness. Thank you Perleys and deLobe for our Sens.

Prof Bruce and then NHL President John Ziegler together at the
Official Announcement that the Bring Back the Senators campaign was
successful, Palm Beach, December 6, 1990

I also want to thank the late Elliot Richardson, former Attorney
General of the United States and American Counsel for our Bring Back the
Senators Campaign. Elliot told me when I first met him, “First, we’ll
intricate the NHL, Bruce.”

“What does ‘intricate’ mean?” I asked him.

So he defined it for me this way—

‘To intricate someone is to bring people on board or to get them
onside with an idea or a proposal or an initiative of some type by
getting them intricated into the process bit by bit, almost without
their noticing that they are making a commitment.’

I put this on Urban Dictionary in his memory. Thank you, Elliot.

Let’s also remember together the last role that Frank Finnegan played
in his long life—former Senators player on our last Stanley Cup winning
team (in 1927), he came with us to Palm Beach in December 1990 and I’ll
never forget him waving his large finger in then NHL President John
Ziegler’s face saying, “John, you give these boys from Ottawa a chance!”

Frank Finnegan Junior told us that a year later when his Dad was in
hospital, he refused to go until he heard if Ottawa had become an
unconditional member of the National League. When Frank Junior came into
his room to tell Dad, “They did it!” Frank smiled, gave a thumbs-up,
turned to the wall and within an hour had passed away, his final mission
on Earth fulfilled.

Thank you, Frank.

I want to recognize the staff at Terrace Investments Inc., the
original parent company of the Sens—many of whom are still there. Jeff
Kyle, Mark Bonneau, Jim Steele and many others work incredibly hard each
day and they’ve built, under President Cyril Leeder and owner Eugene
Melnyk, a team that consistently ranks anywhere from top 7 to top 12 in
the National League in terms of revenue streams and who will reach a new
high water mark for seasons tickets (13,000) for the upcoming
season—you guys are amazing. I am so proud of you all.

I think we should all recognize the efforts of the second owner of
the Sens in the modern era, Rod Bryden*, without whom that building,
Scotiabank Place, would never have been built. When we bought the team,
the Canadian dollar was trading at 90 cents and our first year team had a
total payroll of $6.5 million including its minor league affiliate
denominated in Canadian currency. Just seven years later, the C$ was
around 62 cents and payroll was over $40 million in US currency so you
can see what challenges Rod faced. That’s a payroll that grew from $6.5
to over $60 million during that time. Wow.

There have been four things in my professional career that have meant the most to me—

1. our Bring Back the Senators Campaign that lasted from 1987 until
Oct. 8, 1992 which was, of course, opening night: a 5-3 win over the
Montreal Canadiens, a hard earned, well deserved victory by a great
group of first year players and coaches,

2. my teaching career first at Carleton University’s School of
Architecture then at University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management,

3. my work with the young people at our not-for-profit organization, Exploriem.org,
an entrepreneur, intrapreneur and artpreneur network– two of whom are
with us tonight– Ms. Theresia Scholtes, Assistant Manager and Alex
Wolfe, Project Coordinator– these are the people we depend on to create
the wonderful events we do at Exploriem.org, stand up Theresia/Alex, and

4. writing a trilogy called Quantum Entity, of which Book 1 launches later this month at Artifex
at the National Gallery of Canada along with the film based on it of
the same name done by Ottawa-based Janak Alford and not-for-profit
studio, prototypeD.org.

I have been incredibly lucky to work with fantastic people in this
great country of Canada. I dedicated my new Trilogy to Gen Y who might
be the greatest generation to come along since my Dad’s generation who
took us through two world wars, a great depression, a long cold war and
also brought us from the horse and buggy to rocket ships, the mobile
Internet and a world where nearly 70% of global population can
participate in a recognizably modern economy.

We should take a moment as today is June 6th to honour the brave
soldiers who fought on D-Day on June 6th, 1944 to protect our way of
life and preserve this country for generations to come. Imagine how
lucky we are to live here—where, if two Canucks get mad at each other,
the worst they’ll usually do is use harsh language on each other.

Mike Illitch once asked me what the murder rate is in Ottawa. “10 or 12, Mike,” I replied.

“You mean 10 or 12 a day, Bruce?” Mike asked.

“Nope, that’s a year, Mike.”

“Gee, we get that here in Detroit in a day.”

I have to thank the 15,000 fans in Ottawa who bought PRNs (Priority
Registration Numbers) that got them in line to purchase seasons tickets
for a team that didn’t yet exist. Thank you also to the more than 500
Ottawa corporations who sponsored our Bring Back the Senators Campaign
and the 62 Limited Partners who also backed the team with their funds.
Thank you to Dave O’Malley from Aerographics for creating the first logo
of the Sens in the modern era.

Thank you all for believing in us.

Lastly, I cannot thank enough two very courageous individuals—Cyril
Leeder and Randy Sexton, my co-founders—who had the guts and ability to
drive our campaign to success. Cyril is a master strategist and Randy
has no fear. When I first told Randy and Cyril at the old Lyons Arena
after a pickup hockey game that the NHL might be getting ready to expand
again, that Ottawa might now be big enough to support NHL hockey and
that we could be a bidder, Randy, an MBA from Clarkson and a hockey guy,
jumped up and said enthusiastically, “Sure, let’s do it.” Cyril who is a
CA and more cautious by nature said, “How much is this Franchise going
to cost?” You two have the eternal gratitude of this community.

Finally, let me tell you the story of Elliot Richardson, Gary Burns
(from our accounting firm), Mayor Jim Durrell, Randy Sexton, Cyril
Leeder and I in the basement of the Breakers Hotel, having been brought
there by NHL Security just before the League was to make its
announcement about the winning bidders for its Plan of Sixth Expansion.
Naturally, being in the basement of this massive hotel that makes the
Overlook (from the film the Shining with Jack Nicolson) look positively
inviting and standing next to garbage and their prep kitchen with pipes
leaking on us, it didn’t look too promising.

I told the guys, “Look I am so proud of all of you. We couldn’t have
done anything more. It doesn’t look like we’ve been successful. If that
is the case, we’ll still thank the NHL for letting us be a part of this
and then we’ll have our own press conference. At that conference, we’re
going to recall the words of my Dad (the late OJ Firestone), ‘We won’t
take ‘no’ for an answer.’ We’ll announce that while we weren’t
successful today, we’ll be back next year at the NHL’s winter meetings
and we’ll Bring Back the Senators then.”

So we prepared as best we could and then were taken upstairs to where
the Board of Governors had been meeting. What we didn’t know and
couldn’t know was that the losers were upstairs and the winners were
being hidden from the media by the NHL in the basement.

I met Marcel Aubut first when I came in that conference room, owner
of the then Quebec Nordiques. He said, “Felicitations, mon ami.” I said a
desultory, “Thanks,” thinking that he was congratulating us on a good
try.

Then I came to the front of the room where John Ziegler and Phil
Esposito (who was heading up the successful Tampa bid) were already
standing. I looked down at a piece of paper which said, “The NHL is
pleased and proud to announce today that it has granted conditional
membership to the Cities of Ottawa and Tampa.” It was at that moment I
realized we had done it. There were a few tears and I remember Randy had
a vertical jump of about 30 inches.

After a few moments, I asked John, “What was the vote?”

“It was unanimous,” he replied.

Thank you again Ottawa and Sens fans for all your help and support over the last 20+ years.

This is really your team!

To entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and artpreneurs everywhere, follow your passion!

To my wife, Dawn, my co-pilot, our five great kids, Andrew, Rachel,
Mimi, Matthew and Jessica, to one of my heroes, Cora MacMillan, my
mother-in-law, my late Dad, Professor OJ Firestone and my brother Peter,
thank you for supporting me and putting up with me. To my mother and
grandfather, Sam, originally from Russia where they love hockey almost
as much as Canadians do, thank you for giving me an enduring love of the
game.

It is my hope that one day we have nine National League franchises in Canada: https://www.eqjournal.org/?p=392.

And finally, Go Sens in 2012/13!

Prof Bruce and Middle Daughter Mimi at Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame Induction
Ottawa Convention Centre, June 6, 2012.

Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, B.Eng. (Civil), M.Eng.-Sci., PhD.
Executive Director, Exploriem.org
Founder, Ottawa Senators
Entrepreneurship Ambassador, Telfer School of Managment
University of Ottawa
Author, Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE
www.brucemfirestone.com
www.eqjournal.org
www.exploriem.org
@ProfBruce

“Making Each Day Count”

* I learned four things from Rod Bryden:

1. Always sleep on a decision for at least 24 hours to let your
subconscious mind work on the problem to see if you can come up with an
even bigger win-win for all parties.
2. S/he who loses her/his temper first, loses.
3. Every time you try for the one BIG solution, you fail. Success comes
from piecing things together, bit by bit, here and there.
4. Debt, even high priced debt, is almost always cheaper than equity.

Some more images from those early days:

Images from HOF Induction:

Comment by Dave O’Malley, Aerographics:

Dear Bruce,

What a wonderful honour. You certainly deserve this as well as many
others for the strength and pride and identity that you have brought to
our community.

You have always been a man of vision, even when most people can’t see
it yet. You can see not only to the horizon, but beyond the curve of
the world. 20 plus years ago, when you, Randy and Cyril said to me that
you were going for the brass ring that was an NHL franchise, I said,
“You can do that???” And you replied, “Why not”

Why not indeed!

Dave

@ProfBruce
@Quantum_Entity

Dr Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (Civil), M Eng-Sci, Phd. Founder, Ottawa
Senators; Author, Quantum Entity Trilogy, Entrepreneurs Handbook II;
Executive Director, Exploriem.org; Broker, Century 21 Explorer Realty
Inc; Entrepreneurship Ambassador, Telfer School of Management,
University of Ottawa. 613.566.3436 X 200. bruce.firestone @ century21.ca

Follow Prof Bruce on Twitter @ProfBruce and @Quantum_Entity and read his blogs at www.EQJournal.org and www.dramatispersonae.org.

You can find his works at www.brucemfirestone.com and also at LearnByDoing.ca.

You can engage with him on Facebook via https://www.facebook.com/QuantumEntityTrilogy and https://www.facebook.com/Exploriem as well as via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/profbruce.

His real estate interests are summarized at www.ottawarealestatenews.com and www.thelandstore.org.

YouTube channels include https://www.youtube.com/user/ProfBruce and https://www.youtube.com/user/quantumentitytrilogy.

You can also read the first four chapters of Quantum Entity Trilogy or send it to your friends for free from: https://www.old.dramatispersonae.org/images/QuantumONE_CS_Third_Edition_First_Four_Chapters.pdf

You can read the first two chapters of Entrepreneurs Handbook II or send it to your friends for free: https://www.brucemfirestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/entrepreneurs-handbook-2013-edited-first-two-chapters-withCovers.pdf

Prof Bruce’s current motto is: “Making Each Day Count”

       
       
       
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         Artpreneurs Aren’t Important, Right?        

       
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       Tuesday 5 June 2012  
     
   
       

Wrong!

Here’s a thought experiment for you to perform. Close your eyes for a
moment and ask yourself: how diverse, sustainable, interesting and
vibrant a place would your city be if every one of these professionals
went on an Atlas Shrugged-inspired strike forever?

Here’s my list of suddenly vanishing artpreneurs:

graphic artists, architects, musicians, writers, poets, novelists,
dancers, actors, filmmakers, digital media designers, game makers,
visual artists, fashion designers, composers, painters, commercial
artists, lighting designers, jewelry designers, clothing designers,
perfumers, software designers, technologists, playwrights, martial
artists, sign makers, floral arrangers, sound engineers, industrial
designers, hair and makeup specialists, shoemakers, culinary arts,
interior designers, urban designers, GUI designers, directors,
producers, cinematographers, photographers, foley artists, story
tellers, magicians, pyrotechnicians, costume designers, set makers,
singers, sculptors, furniture and cabinet makers, glass blowers,
potters, graffiti and mural artists, horticulturists, gardeners,
landscape designers, performance artists, cartoonists, caricaturists,
editors, curators, scriptwriters, calligraphers, comics, doll and toy
makers, instrument makers, screenwriters, printers, videographers and
choreographers.

I am sure there are many artpreneurs I left off but the point is
made. You can outsource to low wage nations many things but not this–
design, creativity and a cultural sensitivity, something that allows you
to tell stories and create works that resonate with your society. Only
people schooled in your culture, whatever and wherever that may be can
do this. What would Steve Jobs have been to California and the US if he
had been brought up in, say, Monaco, Las Vegas, Palm Beach or Caracas?
Probably he would not have had the same impact. What would Austin Texas
be without SXSW, the largest tech, film and music showcase event
anywhere? Just another central Texas town with a slow beat to life and a
dull, moribund economy possibly.

Having said this, for those organizations that do believe in
supporting artpreneurs, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, many, many
thanks. We have to thank the wonderful people at  the following list of
companies who made it possible to hold Artifex, Professional Artpreneur
Gala, on June 20, 2012 at the National Gallery of Canada including:

Fortress Real Capital, Devries Financial Group, Eagle
Professional Resources Inc, Alterna Savings and Credit Union, BTI
Systems Networking Company, Claridge Homes, Connelly Group of Companies,
Desjardins Financial Security Independent Network, FaveQuest,
Footeworks Inc, GGFL Chartered Accountants, Granite Networks, Investors
Group Financial Services, KPMG, Let It Shine Cleaning Services, Mold
Busters, Nelligan O’brien Payne LLP, Nitro IT Business Solutions, North
Innovation Fund, Ontario Centres of Excellence, University of Ottawa –
Faculty of Engineering, PCL Construction Leaders, PODS Moving &
Storage, The Regional Group, Renaissance Repair and Supply Ltd, Richard
Chmiel Architect & Associates, Ross Video, Rumidifier Home Comforts
Inc, Tindr Software Outsourcing, Vittorio Motors, Embrylin Estates
Limited/Terlin Construction Ltd, Pirate Adventures, HLD.ca,
StumpsBeGone.ca, Magenta Mortgage Corporation, David St-Jean &
Associates Inc., Westin Health Club/Fairmont Chateau Laurier Health
Club, Chide.it, Glenview, Century 21 Explorer Realty, Empire Deck and
Fence, Royal Bank of Canada, the Properties Group, KWC Architects Inc,
VerTerra, PwC, prototypeD.org, qrankcase.com, Mixed Media Group, Digital
Folios, EyeVero, Cyberwitch Press, Kettleman’s Orleans, Grype
Solutions, Ottawa General Contractors, Broccolini Construction,
UNTETHER.tv, Grandor Group, Tripp Photography, Signs To Go, Deserts
First, Fudge Face, McNian Management, Shotgun Show, Ottawa BuzzTV,
Ottawa Food Bank, Founder (Ottawa Senators), Institute of Entrepreneurs,
Claudia Salguero, Diane White, Developpement DRB, Back Lane Cafe.

If you would like to lend a hand or attend this or any other event,
please get in touch with not-for-profit Exploriem.org, professional
entrepreneur/intrapreneur/artpreneur network at: https://www.exploriem.org/contact/ or via Twitter: @Exploriem.

If you would like to read more about the pre-conditions for economic takeoff, please refer to: https://www.eqjournal.org/?p=3273.

Artifex brings together 30 artpreneurs for a night of magic. There is
good food, wonderful live music, launch of Bruce M Firestone’s Book 1
of his new trilogy, Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE* together with the
world premiere of the film based on the book of the same name produced
by prototypeD.org and a big party.

(*Available at: www.brucemfirestone.com)

You can view some scenes and images from the film and listne to original music created for it here:

@ProfBruce

       
       
       
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         Shotgun Show        

       
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Prof Bruce on the hotseat with charming, super energetic Carlo Lombard from ShotgunShow.com
discussing working with entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and artpreneurs at
Exploriem.org, the release of Book 1 of his new trilogy, Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE, the film based on the Book produced by prototypeD.org and what inspired him to Bring Back the Ottawa Senators back in the day.

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         Support for The Hunger Site        

       
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Worry Dolls play a role in Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE*.
Here is what friend to EQ Journal Judy Murray had to say about her
experience with Worry People:

“My husband Steve and I got our Worry People at a Christmas
Party hosted by Exploriem.org and Prof Bruce in Dec 2011. We named them
‘Molly’ and ‘Miranda’. Molly is Steve’s, Miranda is mine. We don’t know
anyone who has those names but for whatever reason, that is who they
are. I recall that with our dolls, you aren’t supposed to change the
names once you choose them…so they’re Molly and Miranda forever. The
dolls really do work—I can’t believe it. Now some friends of ours are
going through tough times and we need to get them Worry Dolls too,” Judy
Murray, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012.

Meet “Miss Buril”
Guatemalan Worry-No-More Doll
(* The book is available at: https://www.brucemfirestone.com.)

Purpose: Every dollar spent on The Hunger Site buys at least 25 cups of food.
Value: Priceless.

Gillian Boys, tour guide in Belize, has this to say about Worry Dolls (excerpt from the Book 1 of the Quantum Entity trilogy):

“Worry People are tiny folk art dolls mostly found in Guatemala
Highland Maya culture. If you confess your troubles to your Worry Doll
before you go to sleep each night, they’ll steal them away and you’ll
sleep peacefully and completely.
“Our dolls come from San Juan del Obispo. They’re hand-made using all
natural cotton fibres and textiles made in Guatemala. Your job is to
find a coupla dolls that speak to you and to draw a face on each of them
and give them a name. But once you have given them a name, it’s like
ships, it’s bad luck to change them so be careful.
“We have three types of dyes for you to work with: tanine, vat dyes and
dyes with mordent. We also have lots of non-run, non-NSM inks and
different colored threads of various diameters to choose from so there
you go…
“Any questions?”
“I have one,” says a pensive Nell. “Where do Worry Dolls take our fears after we tell them what’s going on?”

You can get your Worry Dolls from The Hunger Site by visiting: https://www.thehungersite.com/store/ths/item/33968/guatemalan-worry-no-more-doll?source=10–1475810807-5

Or come to Artifex at the National Gallery of Canada and June 20th, 2012 and find your Worry Doll– she is looking for you right now.

____________________________________________
@ProfBruce
www.brucemfirestone.com

For more of the back story on Worry Dolls, please refer to:

Miss Buril

https://www.eqjournal.org/?p=2911

Excerpt from Quantum Entity: We Are All One: ‘Worry Dolls’

https://www.eqjournal.org/?p=2939

       
       
       
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         Artifex        

       
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       Saturday 2 June 2012  
     
   
       

Professional Artpreneur Gala

We want to take this opportunity to thank all the sponsors of Artifex
in advance of this very special event that will take place on June
20th, 2012 at the National Gallery Of Canada. These organizations make
it possible to celebrate the essential role that the arts play in
building better, more diverse, more interesting, more dynamic and more
sustainable communities.

On June 20th, come meet Miss Nell, Performance Artist from Palos
Verdes, California, and the rest of the cast and crew of Quantum
Enitity, We Are All ONE, a film* produced by prototypeD.org and world premiering at Artifex that night.

Miss Nell, Performance Artist
From Palos Verdes, California

It will be a night of magic, recalled for a long time afterwards, thanks to generous support from:

Fortress Real Capital, Devries Financial Group, Eagle
Professional Resources Inc, Alterna Savings and Credit Union, BTI
Systems Networking Company, Claridge Homes, Connelly Group of Companies,
Desjardins Financial Security Independent Network, FaveQuest,
Footeworks Inc, GGFL Chartered Accountants, Granite Networks, Investors
Group Financial Services, KPMG, Let It Shine Cleaning Services, Mold
Busters, Nelligan O’brien Payne LLP, Nitro IT Business Solutions, North
Innovation Fund, Ontario Centres of Excellence, University of Ottawa –
Faculty of Engineering, PCL Construction Leaders, PODS Moving &
Storage, The Regional Group, Renaissance Repair and Supply Ltd, Richard
Chmiel Architect & Associates, Ross Video, Rumidifier Home Comforts
Inc, Terlin Construction, Tindr Software Outsourcing, Vittorio Motors,
Embrylin Estates Limited/Terlin Construction Ltd, Pirate Adventures,
HLD.ca, StumpsBeGone.ca. Magenta Mortgage Corporation, David St-Jean
& Associates Inc., Westin Health Club/Fairmont Chateau Laurier
Health Club, Chide.it

If you would like to lend a hand or attend this or any other event,
please get in touch with not-for-profit Exploriem.org, professional
entrepreneur/intrapreneur/artpreneur network at: https://www.exploriem.org/contact/ or via Twitter: @Exploriem.

What role do the arts play in the development of our city-state
economies? What role do these people play in a modern economy–designers,
technologists, graphic artists, architects, musicians, writers, poets,
novelists, dancers, actors, filmmakers, digital media designers, game
makers, visual artists, fashion designers, composers, painters,
commercial artists, lighting designers, jewelry designers, clothing
designers, perfumers, playwrights, martial artists, sign makers, floral
arrangers, sound engineers, industrial designers, hair and makeup
specialists, shoemakers, culinary arts, interior designers, urban
designers, GUI designers, directors, producers, cinematographers,
photographers, foley artists, story tellers, magicians, pyrotechnicians,
costume designers, set makers, singers, sculptors, furniture and
cabinet makers, glass blowers, potters, graffiti and mural artists,
horticulturists, gardeners, landscape designers, performance artists,
cartoonists, caricaturists, editors, curators, scriptwriters,
calligraphers, comics, doll and toy makers, instrument makers,
screenwriters, printers, videographers, choreographers and many other
professionals, too many to list here?

Question: WHO NEEDS ‘EM?

Answer: WE ALL DO!

What would life be like without the arts? Can your city compete in a
global marketplace without a strong arts community? Answers: horrible
and no.

@ProfBruce

* Based on the book of the same name available at: www.brucemfirestone.com.

ps. if you would like to read more about the conditions for economic takeoff, please refer to: https://www.eqjournal.org/?p=3273.

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         Carp Road Corridor Business Improvement Area        

       
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We have in Ottawa a BIA (Business Improvement Area) focused
on improving the Carp Road corridor. It’s an important stretch of road
connecting the fast growing suburb of Stittsville and the historic
Village of Carp.

It is a mostly rural area but there are municipal services at both
ends but not along much of the 15.1 kilometre road connecting these two
anchors. What this means is that the City of Ottawa has thousands of
acres of industrially zoned land that do not have access to piped serves
(water and sewer). This is a shame.

There is a shortage of industrial land in Ottawa that small and
medium sized businesses can purchase and build on so that they can own
their own buildings instead of being forced to rent from large
landowners and developers. Yet here we have an opportunity to create a
huge new wealth-producing area that (mostly) lies fallow.

There are three main problems:

1. The City of Ottawa is not pro-active on this file.

2. The gateway to the area is bookmarked by a huge smelly dump and an aggregate and asphalt operation.

3. The name of the road is not especially attractive..

Let’s deal with the last one first.

‘Carp’ are oily freshwater fish that prefer to scavenge the bottom
for insects, crustaceans and benthic worms. This would not be the name I
would choose for a major new industrial park. So my suggestion for the
BIA? Change it.

I looked around for an Ottawa-based hero and found one: John Henry
Tudhope who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1920. He was a
Squadron Leader who surveyed available Trans-Canada airmail routes
starting in Ottawa and extending through the Prairies and then the Rocky
Mountains. So let’s first rebrand the roadway; call it John Henry
Tudhope Airport Road instead of Carp Road at least along the middle
section between Stittsville and the Village of Carp.

Does branding matter? Sure it does. I have had many clients over the
years reject a site on Carp Road simply because it has a yucky name.

I would also rebrand the Carp Airport (how about John Henry Tudhope
Airport?) and repurpose it. It would make a marvelous freight airport
where cargo planes can taxi right to and then into industrial buildings
built on the more than 1,000 acres of available land there. Getting
aircraft inside your building is a huge help with JIT (just in time)
processes.

Now for the middle problem. You can’t get rid of the dump or the
aggregate operation; they’ll both be there for another generation or
two. Instead, go around them. The BIA can create a new gateway using the
relatively recent addition of the Palladium interchange on Highway 417
and Richardson Side Road. See the map below.

My suggestions are to use signage and a special asphalt (say, a light
reddish sandy coloured asphalt) to demark the rebranded Tudhope Road so
people will know they’ve arrived in a ‘special’ place.

As for the issue of the City of Ottawa, I would suggest that they use
a special assessment zone. If there are say 15,000 acres that would
benefit from the extension of water and sewer services and say it costs
$75,000,000 to do it, that’s $5,000 per acre that has to be added to
their property taxes.

That’s how we did the EMTS (East March Trunk Sewer) in Kanata which
allowed for the huge expansion of Newbridge (now Alcatel) as well as the
Kanata North Business Park, Briarbrook and Morgan’s Grant.

These things are typically front ended by the City and repaid over
ten years so it would be something like $500 per acre per year added to
an owner’s tax bill plus a bit of interest. This only applies to
benefiting owners and is not otherwise a burden on City taxpayers.

I would guess that the value added to an acre of industrial land
along this rebranded corridor might be something $100,000 or more. Land
values might increase from $100k per acre now to $200k or more. In the
east end of Ottawa, some industrial lands are selling for more than
$300k per acre so there is lots of room for growth. $500 per year in
additional property taxes is probably not too much for most property
owners to bear.

For the City of Ottawa, this is a boon. Industrial development pays
higher tax rates and taxes and demands far fewer services than
residential development; they are a fiscal plus.

Hey ho, let’s go.

@ProfBruce

       
       
       
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         Taking Life by the Horns        

       
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(Follow Your Passion/Face Your Fears)
(Guest Article by Geoffrey Scoates, Student Entrepreneur, World Traveler, Writer)

It’s really hard to forget someone like Prof Bruce. He’s bold,
passionate and in your face. He’ll tell you what he thinks not because
he wants to hurt you or crush your idea but because he cares and he has a
‘mental map of the way the world works’.

He told us, ‘Follow Einstein’s model—test your ideas in thought
experiments. These are fast and efficient and will save you years of
fruitless effort.

Nothing is faster than light, right? Wrong. It takes light just over
three minutes to get from Earth to the fourth planet from the Sun at its
closest approach. But if you close your eyes for a few seconds, you can
visualize Mars, the red planet, in your mind’s eye in mere moments. So
you can see the power of your mind, it’s faster-than-light!

Thus, if you test your ideas against a good mental map of the way the
world works, you can save yourself a lot of time and trouble—you can
get on the right track from the get go.’

Geoff in Japan

After graduating, having just finished his ‘Entrepreneurialist
Culture’ course, I was armed and ready to start my own business; to take
on the world. Prof Bruce reminded me, ‘Starting your own business is
like having a baby–you will live, eat and breathe that child for its
first five to seven years.’ I’m pretty sure that he knew nothing about
my personal relationship history but, by that point, my longest
relationship had lasted just nine months and that was while I was still
in high school. So I took it to heart, figuring that if I can’t commit
to a girl for very long then a baby was way out of my league.

Having run my own College Pro Franchise in first year and being
heavily involved with entrepreneurship throughout university, I knew
that my passion was running my own business. My only issues were
maturity and commitment ones. So what to do?

I went to Japan! I figured I would throw myself into a completely different culture with a different language and way of living.

My mission was: Japan. My objective was: maturity. Estimated time of
completion was: one year. Then I’d be back in Canada and ready to rock
the world.

I threw myself into Japan and I can honestly say I didn’t think it was going to be hard.

Shortly after my arrival there, my ‘I’m going to ride life like a
wave’ attitude switched to ‘Holy crap, life is riding me.’ It was an
epiphany. At Tokyo airport, I successfully bought a bus ticket, boarded
and started my journey to a small countryside town called Kofu where I
would be teaching English as a Second Language for the next year.

It was after the first announcement by the bus driver of which I
understood absolutely nothing that I realized I wasn’t in Kansas any
more. I couldn’t differentiate between words; it was a blur of
nothingness. How was I going to recognize ‘Kofu’ and get off at that
stop? Was I even pronouncing it right? What the heck was I doing in a
country I knew nothing about? Why didn’t I learn some Japanese
beforehand? The bold face I had put on when friends seemed amazed I was
going, suddenly vanished. ‘I’m going to sink!’ I remember thinking to
myself.

Three and half years later, I left Japan with a love for that
country. I learned to laugh at my mistakes and misunderstandings like:
is this tuna or cat food? I just hope if tastes good!

Since I didn’t know how to ask for permission in Japanese before I
did something, I used Prof Bruce’s philosophy—it’s better to ask for
forgiveness than beg for permission. So I figured if someone didn’t want
me to do something, they’d stop me.

I flew into Japan a tall ignorant white Gwailo with gangly arms,
foreign clothes and a ‘life is easy’ attitude. I came away speaking
Japanese and understanding that you just have to keep trying. If I can
learn Japanese, if I can adapt to a different culture and customs, if I
can accept something that is foreign to me and work with it rather than
struggle against it then I can do anything.

So filled with passion for life again, I left Nippon and headed to Australia. Apparently, I had more growing up to do.

I spent the next year and half down under in Melbourne. I still
wasn’t really sure what I was looking for but I knew it was there and
that I was close. Perhaps I would find it at one of their beaches, in
the surf or in a night club or cafe (the cafes are awesome in
Melbourne). I looked everywhere.

I got a job at lululemon athletica. It’s a company that holds a
special place in my heart. It taught me what it is to truly care for
someone. The people I worked with were warm, caring, friendly and
inviting.

When I found out that goal-setting sessions were mandatory at the
company, the business side of me jumped for joy. I remembered my passion
for entrepreneurship. They showed me how to share my hopes, dreams and
fears. I learned what it means to support people in their pursuit of
their goals. I learned to let go of my past and take hold of the future.

I always wanted to be a writer. I had an idea for a sustainable
growth model for businesses and cities but was limited by the fact that
‘I was not very good at English’ even though I had been an ESL teacher!
So I learned to embrace my fears because you only have them when
something is really important to you. I recognized that dreams only come
true when you put them into action and the first step is talking about
both your dreams and your fears.

So I started telling everyone that I was writing a book and soon enough, I was.

I have done more to become an author in the last six months than I
ever thought I could. I have met people and reconnected with friends
that now know me as a writer. I’m not afraid to ask for help, I’m not
afraid to share. I’m not afraid to take on life and I’m not afraid to
strive for big results.

Safe means getting a 9-5 JOB and doing enough to satisfy people
around me. I don’t want that. I want to live with passion, every moment
of my life. So I am taking life by the horns. Life may throw me back in
the deep end but I know, I know how to swim now.

I moved back to Vancouver, my hometown, three weeks ago. I can see
that I was running away from life, away from my passion. I was
frightened. But your passion lives inside you nonetheless. You only have
to listen to it and see it.

I’m fed up with running. I don’t want to wake up and be ninety years
old and wonder why life is so tough. Follow your passion and it will
lead you to your true path.

So I’m back in Vancouver and every morning I ask myself, ‘Am I going
to live life today or am I going to run away from it?’ I’m done running.

Geoff Scoates, Writer
Vancouver BC

       
       
       
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         An Entrepreneur’s Journey        

       
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Govindh Jayaraman Tries to Change the World and Himself
(This article originally appeared in Ottawa Business Journal, May
28, 2012: Portions of this article originally appeared in Ottawa
Business Journal, March 5, 2012: https://www.obj.ca/Opinion/Bruce-Firestone-5444.)

I met Govindh Jayaraman when he was a student and I was with the
Ottawa Senators back in the day. He wanted me to be a keynote speaker at
a University of Ottawa event he was in charge of so he camped out in
front of Sens HQ at 5 am on a freezing winter’s day and waited for me to
arrive just after 7. I invited the cold kid in for a coffee and we
talked. He got his wish.

Now having just turned 40, married with three kids of his own, Mr.
Jayaraman runs a holding company which controls four operating
businesses and some real estate. He is thinking of adding more.

Govindh says modestly, “I am a terrible operator and not really good
at detail but I’m surrounded by really good operators. In fact, I get
immersed enough in a business just to become dangerous.”

“I enjoy creating a biz model then putting it into the marketplace
to see if it’ll work. It usually takes a year or two to find out,” he
continues.

Mr. Jayaraman uses three tests before he’ll make any investment: his
head, heart and gut all have to be in agreement with the most important
being his gut check. “It’s that part of your brain that you can’t
articulate. It’s that huge part of your brain that you should be in
touch with,” he adds with extra emphasis.

He started Green Stop, an early player in bio diesel. In fact, Mr.
Jayaraman says his was the first all renewable fuel station in North
America. More recently, Green Stop has pivoted away from fuel in Canada
to become a c-store chain, one with differentiated value. In the US,
Green Stop is still a bio diesel fuel trader.

Green Stop has replaced candy bars with healthy organic, tasty treats
and they focus on real food/fresh food. This is unusual for c-stores as
you will have noticed if you have visited one in the last 15 years. The
plan is to franchise Green Stops. His goal is to have ten shops within
12 to 18 months and Govindh believes there is a market for 500 of these
in North America.

He will only put them into neighborhoods that are safe, walkable
places and in this he is similar to another homegrown success
story—Bridgehead Coffee which refuses to locate any stores in
car-centric suburbs. Both don’t want to contribute to greenhouse gas
emissions if they can help it.

Green Stop also offers what they call the ‘100-mile lunch’ which as
the name suggests sources all ingredients within that radius of each
store. It’s more differentiated value and represents a commitment to
core values.

Mr. Jayaraman’s hold co also manages Asus Medical which provides
support for medical specialists including billing, scheduling and back
office functions. He also owns Kettlemans Bagel Company in Orleans. They
do both retail and wholesale, supplying Costco with Montreal-style
bagels, voted nine years in a row as their most favorite bagel.

Their key differentiator? All natural, no preservative bagels.

His basic investment strategy is to acquire companies that are
entrepreneurially stagnant but have a strong local presence. Kettlemans
was an example of that. “I want to add entrepreneurial culture to main
street businesses,” Govindh says.

Somehow all this makes sense at least to Mr. Jayaraman. Don’t talk to
him about focus or, if you do, don’t be surprised if he tells you he
has focus, just on one biz idea at a time.

He credits much of his success to belonging to EO, Entrepreneurs
Organization. EO has 8,000 members worldwide, over 800 in Canada and 40
in Ottawa. Each member must have annual revenues of at least $1m USD and
you must be the founder plus be active in the biz.

They share experiences and it’s the first community where Mr.
Jayaraman has felt that everyone shares the same values: a thirst for
learning/desire to make a mark/to boldly go forward/trust and
respect/have some fun.

One of the things he was taught via their leadership training program was to address his bottom 5%. “Huh, what’s that?” I ask.

“These are the five percent of things that you are most scared of.
Face them. Address them. Take that aspect of leadership everywhere with
you and wear it easily,” he answers with a smile.

Professor Bruce M. Firestone, Founder, Ottawa Senators; Author and
Executive Director, Exploriem.org; Broker, Century 21 Explorer Realty;
Entrepreneurship Ambassador, Telfer School of Management, University of
Ottawa. Follow him on Twitter: @ProfBruce

       
       
       
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         Open Letter to: Our Community and all of the City of Ottawa        

       
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From: Professor Bruce M Firestone, Executive Director, Exploriem.org
Date: May 28, 2012
Re.: Support for the Arts and Artists in this Community

The average Canadian artist makes just $22,000 per year. Yet where
would be without art? How dull our cities would be and how empty life
would be of music, film, fabulous clothes, cool cars, paintings,
fantastic culinary arts, dance moves, jewelry, architecture, iPhones,
landscaping, books, Kindles, entertainment and design.

I would like to invite you to support 30 Ottawa artists at Artifex,
the Professional Artist Gala, at the National Gallery of Canada on June
20th, 2012 beginning at 6:30 pm. We will feed you; there is some
wonderful live music to be performed by Carl Bray, one of Canada’s
greatest young composers along with Andres Del Castillo from Eight
Seconds and others; you will meet the artists and see their work; it is
the official release date for my new novel, Quantum Entity, We Are All
ONE (Book 1 of a trilogy I am writing) and the world premiere of the
movie based on the book done by prototypeD.org. After that, it’s a big party.

Proceeds from the evening go to prototypeD.org,
a not-for-profit community group of artists, filmmakers, songwriters,
designers, architects and engineers. Their studio is in the Glebe at 601
Bank Street—literally underground.

Part of soundtrack from the film, Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE.
Original music and lyrics by Chris Brydges. Images by prototypeD.org

Tickets for Artifex are $50 for students and $100 for everyone else.
There are a limited number of lower price tickets available generously
subsidized by our sponsors for the evening so please let either Ms.
Erika Godwin, Manager, or Theresia Scholtes, Assistant Manager, at
not-for-profit Exploriem.org know—call us at 613.566.3436 or go online
to:
https://www.exploriem.org/events/artifex/.

We and all the artpreneurs, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs we support through our work at Exploriem.org
could use your help to make this a night that is as special as one of
the greatest evenings of my life—the first game the Ottawa Senators
played in the modern era—October 8th, 1992, a 5-3 victory over Les
Canadiens de Montréal. We didn’t do that alone and we can’t do this
alone—will you please lend us your support?

Kindest regards to all,

@ProfBruce
www.brucemfirestone.com
www.exploriem.org
www.eqjournal.org

“Make Each Day Count”

Postscript: a bit of shameless self promotion next. We are trying to
put Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE on the CDN bestseller list. It’s a
wonderful story about some incredible young people who conceive, launch,
grow and then defend a world-spanning tech company circa 2150. I put
the Foreword on my blog: https://www.eqjournal.org/?p=2932. The Book is published the same day as Artifex. You can get a copy of the book from: https://www.brucemfirestone.com.
I hope you will; it would mean a lot to me. It’s $9.95 for an e-copy,
somewhat more for a paperback. Here’s an early review we got: “After
reading Part I (Discovery) of Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE, I was
totally hooked. It’s better than ‘The Goal’ and more entertaining even
than ‘Dune’!” David Perry, Partner, Perry-Martel International,
co-author, Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0.

       
       
       
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         Nell’s Folly        

       
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The Successors

Miss Nell, Performance Artist from Palos Verdes, California

Nell knows that you have to think not of your own victory over those
who would harm you but what you might do afterwards to prepare and make
way for your own successors.

Here Chris Brydges sings a mournful tune that nevertheless celebrates
Nell’s thinking. Original music and lyrics by Chris Brydges. Images and
audio recording by prototypeD.org. Based on Book 1 (Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE) of Bruce M Firestone’s new trilogy available at www.brucemfirestone.com.

Visit the official Quantum Entity page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuantumEntityTrilogy

Visit Quantum Entity Trilogy YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/QuantumEntityTrilogy

Music performed live at Artifex on June 20, 2012: https://www.exploriem.org/events/artifex/

World premiere of movie based on Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE at
National Gallery of Canada, June 20, 2012. Hear Nell’s Folly in the film
as well.

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         Radio Plays        

       
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       Friday 25 May 2012  
     
   
       

Two Scenes from Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE: Audio Presentation

Perhaps the best days of radio are behind it but then again maybe
not. Who would have thought that the golden age of television could be
ahead of us?

Game of Thrones, Shameless, Mad Men, Walking Dead, True Blood,
Dexter, LOST, Entourage, Sopranos, Deadwood, Band of Brothers and many
more allow actors, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers,
producers, production managers, production designers, art directors, set
designers, propmakers, costume designers, makeup artists, special
effects supervisors, sound engineers, editors, composers, foley artists
and others to come together for years to create wonderful art.

There is no doubt that if you put together a talented team like this
and let them work towards a common goal over extended periods of time
(far more than the time allotted to create a feature film), it’s no
wonder that television series like those mentioned above blow away
Hollywood films such as American Pie, Dude Where’s My Car, John Tucker
Must Die, Gigli, Hall Pass or Hugo.

In any event, the cast of the short film based on the book: Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE, came together at prototypeD.org to record two scenes as radio plays.

In Scene 1, superstar performance artist Nell reports to business
dynamo, the fabulous Ellen Brooks that her CEO, Damien Bell, leader of
their upstart, globe-spanning tech company called Quantum Computing
Corporation, has been kidnapped by persons unknown. Next Ellen, assisted
by Quantum Entities, Pet3r, Ash3r and Su7e, have to decide what to do
about it.

In Scene 2, we listen to an exchange between Damien and his captor.

@ProfBruce
www.brucemfirestone.com
https://www.facebook.com/QuantumEntityTrilogy
https://www.youtube.com/user/QuantumEntityTrilogy

Purchase the entire book at https://www.brucemfirestone.com/
Recorded and produced by: https://www.prototypeD.org/
Sound FX: https://www.freesfx.co.uk/
Background Music: https://www.incompetech.com/ Kevin McLeod
Interlude is Damien’s Theme by Paul Raven

Visualizations adapted from:
https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/5588 – Title
https://openprocessing.org/sketch/6753 – Clouds are Looming
https://openprocessing.org/sketch/31195 – Turing Patterns
https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/5662 – Particle Sphere
https://www.prototypeD.org/ Smoke Visualization in Blender 2.63 adapted from https://vimeo.com/19349893

Brought to you in part by Picondo: https://www.picondo.com/
Additional support by: https://www.exploriem.org/

       
       
       
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